London, Harding and Lepard, and G.B. Whittaker, 1827 (fourth edition, greatly enlarged and corrected). An attractive early edition of this classic of bibliography. With the early armorial bookplate of the English classical scholar Benjamin Bickley Rogers, and the later bookplate of Hardwicke Knight. More about An Introduction to the Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics....

Adelaide, Government Printer, 1886. Prepared for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London in 1886; with a presentation inscription from the author to J.G.O. Tepper (see below). 'It is to be regretted that some legislation was not passed in the early days of the colony, enforcing the lodgment in the... More about Bibliography of South Australia

London, Sotheran, 1888. The original 'With Compliments' slip is loosely inserted. Not least, in the secondary catalogue, 'A Complete Set of Mr Gould's Magnificent Works' in 43 volumes for 1000 pounds. More about A Catalogue of Superior Second-hand Books in Literature, Science and the Fine Arts .. including...

Adelaide, Vardon and Pritchard, 1902. More about Fifty Years of the Port Adelaide Institute, Incorporated, with Supplementary Catalogue

New York, Lockwood Trade Journal, 1916. Some relevant ephemera is loosely inserted. More about A History of Paper Manufacturing in the United States, 1690-1916

London, Dent, 1923. More about The Book of Lovat Claud Fraser

New York, Dutton, 1929. More about The Profession of Letters. A Study of the Relation of Author to Patron, Publisher and Public,...

Adelaide, F.W. Preece & Sons (and printed at the Hassell Press), 1930. Not least, pp 25-26, The Home of the Blizzard by Sir Douglas Mawson, and the rear cover advertising the 1930 abridged popular edition. More about Desiderata. A Guide to Good Books. Number 6, 1st November 1930

London, Argonaut, 1936. More about A Centenary Bibliography of the Pickwick Papers

Adelaide, Wakefield Press, 1942. Number 170 of 250 copies signed by the author (and the first publication of his Wakefield Press). With the ownership signature of Edward Edgar Pescott. More about A Checklist of Ex Libris Literature published in Australia

Portland, The Anthoensen Press, [c.1950]. Number 147 of 300 copies (250 of which were for sale). Eight leaves of illustrations include one tipped-in bookplate. More about Bookplates. A Selection from the Works of Charles R. Capon. Together with a Foreword and Complete...

Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1952 (first edition). Number 218 of 250 numbered copies signed by the author. More about Pressmen and Governors. Australian Editors and Writers in Early Tasmania

London, Faber and Faber, 1952 (revised)/ 1937. More about A History of the Old English Letter Foundries. With Notes Historical and Bibliographical on the...

Melbourne, Hawthorn Press, 1953. One of 450 copies. More about A Book is Built. More Conversations for Authors

Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1956. Number 331 of 500 copies numbered and signed by the author. More about The Art of Book-Collecting in Australia

[Adelaide], South Australian Department of Mines and Geological Survey, 1959. More about Bibliography of South Australian Geology. Includes all literature published up to and including...

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1960. One of the Oxford Palaeographical Handbooks. More about English Vernacular Hands from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Centuries

Brisbane, The Shapcott Press, May 1963. The lengthy colophon on the verso of the rear cover states that the item 'was wholly set by hand by Harrison Bryan & Brian Donaghey and printed with the assistance of the English Honours students in the University of Queensland'. Loosely inserted is a.... More about George Canning. A Contemporary Tribute to Him, from a Manuscript now in the Queensland University...

London, Lund Humphries, 1967. Middows Brothers 'With Compliments' card attached to flyleaf. More about The Penrose Annual, Volume 60, 1967. (The International Review of the Graphic Arts

Canberra, National Library of Australia, 1968 [first edition]. Presentation copy. Inscribed 'to recall many happy associations', dated (December 1969) and signed by Harold Leslie White, then National Librarian and Executive Officer, to Sir Alexander Russell Downer (though not stated as such). With numerous illustrations, many in colour. More about National Library of Australia

Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1970. The fifth in a series of aboriginal bibliographies on areas "of the continent which offer the best possibilities for research on the traditional life of the Aborigines". Primarily the Gulf Country (Northern Territory border to the Gilbert River) plus south-west Queensland (west of... More about North-West-Central Queensland. An Annotated Bibliography

London, Andre Deutsch, 1970 and Ultimo, Hutchinson Australia, 1976 (Australian edition; first published in London the same year). Superseded, albeit by an unillustrated volume, thus still useful. More about A Bibliography of Australian Children's Books [Volume 1. Together with] .. Volume 2

Leeds, Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 1971. With the pictorial bookplate, designed by Katharine Stafford, of G.A.Stafford. More about Symposium on Printing

Wellington, Newrick, 1973 (facsimile edition)/ 1909. One of 1,250 numbered copies. Offered together with a fine copy of the 1975 facsimile reprint edition of the 1927 Supplement, compiled by A.H. Johnstone (octavo, iv, 74 pages: limited to 1000 numbered copies). More about A Bibliography of the Literature relating to New Zealand

Wellington, Newrick, 1973 (facsimile edition)/ 1909. Number 1038 of 1,250 numbered copies. Offered together with a slightly marked and rubbed copy of the 1975 facsimile reprint edition of the 1927 Supplement, compiled by A.H. Johnstone (octavo, iv, 74 pages: number 370 of 1000 copies). More about A Bibliography of the Literature relating to New Zealand